something about putting himself in a little girls shoes
and figuring out where he would go.”
“Okay! Well, I don’t
really get it, but I’m only here to secretly follow this child. It is lucky we
found her in the first place.”
As I say that, I also
focus my attention on having everyone around me avert their eyes.
A cool, secretive
sensation invades my mind, informing me that the skill is now currently active.
In front of me I am only a
few steps behind the girl.
Almost as if she is aware
I am chasing her, she suddenly stops and does a complete ninety
degree turn, disappearing into an alley in the blink of an eye.
A tinge of worry assaults
me, but I feel better when I catch up to the little girl only a minute later.
I keep giving Lost reports
over the party chat. He is slightly behind as when she had
entered the alley the others lost track of her.
I go in and out of
dark alleys and through busy streets, almost as if I am being lead on a
wild goose chase. This girl clearly did not want anyone following her.
The houses all around me
slowly get smaller and smaller. Eventually, I come to a sudden realization.
‘We are approaching
the city wall!’
Lost and the others are no
longer trying to follow as well. Once Sir Laurence caught up with them, there
was no longer a way for all of them to keep up with me and the girl on the
ground.
I told them at one stage
to just come down, but apparently, they aren’t meant to be seen. Of course, I
yelled out to them that if they didn’t want to get seen then they should hurry
up and get off of the roofs. It was an incredibly frustrating conversation. And
over such a simple thing, I even lost control of my emotions.
Feeling ashamed, I follow
the girl in silence. She often flicks her head back to check for any followers,
which makes me incredibly uneasy and nervous, but my skill to avert her eyes
from me prevails in the end.
When I bring my eyes back
to the girl from looking at the wooden buildings, she has somehow disappeared
from right in front of me. My heart clenches at the thought that I just failed
the quest.
I frantically search the
surrounding to find out where she could have gone, but I cannot discern where
she went no matter how hard I look.
Returning to where I saw
her last, I can’t gather where else she could have gone. There are some small
cheap residences on one side of the road, while on the other side, there is the
city wall.
‘She must have gone
into one of the residences, but which one?’
I ponder to myself while
looking around. There is no way she climbed the wall with some kind of
extraordinary feat, so what else could there be.
My eyes wander to the base
of the wall where I notice something peculiar. There is a thin plate of metal,
about forty centimetres long and wide, leaning against the wall.
‘No, it can’t be.’
I move over to the plate
and move it out of the way. I may have suspected it, but to find a hole in the
wall is still surprising.
I hesitate for a moment,
not wanting to crawl along the ground through the small hole. The hesitation
goes as I consider that this quest needs to be done. Lost probably won’t
forgive me for causing him to fail it just because I didn’t want to crawl
through the dirt.
I get down on my elbows
and crawl through the gap. The wall is about two meters deep and having to
squeeze my shoulders together in such a tight spot makes my chest feel rather
uncomfortable.
After a minute of wiggling
around I emerge on the other side of the wall. The hole on the outside isn’t
covered by a metal plate, but instead has a clump of unnaturally long grass
growing over it.
Outside of that crop of
grass was a small clearing about fifty meters in diameter. Everything else was
what appeared to be endless woods, the trees reaching from ten to twenty meters
tall.
On my way out of the grass
it is unavoidable that I made a few rustling noises. So who is to blame me for
warning not only the little girl that I was
and figuring out where he would go.”
“Okay! Well, I don’t
really get it, but I’m only here to secretly follow this child. It is lucky we
found her in the first place.”
As I say that, I also
focus my attention on having everyone around me avert their eyes.
A cool, secretive
sensation invades my mind, informing me that the skill is now currently active.
In front of me I am only a
few steps behind the girl.
Almost as if she is aware
I am chasing her, she suddenly stops and does a complete ninety
degree turn, disappearing into an alley in the blink of an eye.
A tinge of worry assaults
me, but I feel better when I catch up to the little girl only a minute later.
I keep giving Lost reports
over the party chat. He is slightly behind as when she had
entered the alley the others lost track of her.
I go in and out of
dark alleys and through busy streets, almost as if I am being lead on a
wild goose chase. This girl clearly did not want anyone following her.
The houses all around me
slowly get smaller and smaller. Eventually, I come to a sudden realization.
‘We are approaching
the city wall!’
Lost and the others are no
longer trying to follow as well. Once Sir Laurence caught up with them, there
was no longer a way for all of them to keep up with me and the girl on the
ground.
I told them at one stage
to just come down, but apparently, they aren’t meant to be seen. Of course, I
yelled out to them that if they didn’t want to get seen then they should hurry
up and get off of the roofs. It was an incredibly frustrating conversation. And
over such a simple thing, I even lost control of my emotions.
Feeling ashamed, I follow
the girl in silence. She often flicks her head back to check for any followers,
which makes me incredibly uneasy and nervous, but my skill to avert her eyes
from me prevails in the end.
When I bring my eyes back
to the girl from looking at the wooden buildings, she has somehow disappeared
from right in front of me. My heart clenches at the thought that I just failed
the quest.
I frantically search the
surrounding to find out where she could have gone, but I cannot discern where
she went no matter how hard I look.
Returning to where I saw
her last, I can’t gather where else she could have gone. There are some small
cheap residences on one side of the road, while on the other side, there is the
city wall.
‘She must have gone
into one of the residences, but which one?’
I ponder to myself while
looking around. There is no way she climbed the wall with some kind of
extraordinary feat, so what else could there be.
My eyes wander to the base
of the wall where I notice something peculiar. There is a thin plate of metal,
about forty centimetres long and wide, leaning against the wall.
‘No, it can’t be.’
I move over to the plate
and move it out of the way. I may have suspected it, but to find a hole in the
wall is still surprising.
I hesitate for a moment,
not wanting to crawl along the ground through the small hole. The hesitation
goes as I consider that this quest needs to be done. Lost probably won’t
forgive me for causing him to fail it just because I didn’t want to crawl
through the dirt.
I get down on my elbows
and crawl through the gap. The wall is about two meters deep and having to
squeeze my shoulders together in such a tight spot makes my chest feel rather
uncomfortable.
After a minute of wiggling
around I emerge on the other side of the wall. The hole on the outside isn’t
covered by a metal plate, but instead has a clump of unnaturally long grass
growing over it.
Outside of that crop of
grass was a small clearing about fifty meters in diameter. Everything else was
what appeared to be endless woods, the trees reaching from ten to twenty meters
tall.
On my way out of the grass
it is unavoidable that I made a few rustling noises. So who is to blame me for
warning not only the little girl that I was
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